Kurogane got up with his head throbbing. It was very bright outside it lit the room brightly. He rubbed his soar head and groaned when he felt a little lump from where he fell. He thought he slept from the time in the bathroom he remembers until the early morning. The ninja suspected that he was early and that Fay hadn't come in yet. He decided to get up anyways, if he was already wide-awake. The ninja made his way to the kitchen, He head the pots, and pans being washed. He was confused.

' How long have I been sleeping?' He got to the kitchen doors and saw Calleigh doing the dishes.

" Good morning sleeping beauty." She smirked when she saw him standing there.

" How long have I slept for?"

" I don't know, you passed out on your way out of the bathroom and you haven't gotten up until now. So I say a few hours."

" What time is it?"

" It's about 3 in the afternoon. Fay went out to get stuff; we are running low on food. He didn't want to go unless you woke up and he wasn't here. But I reassured him that I will be here and nothing will happen to you while he was out. He is worried about you." Calleigh said.

Kurogane tried to hold down a blush to think that Fay refused to help Calleigh, just to help him. He looked at the women.

" Need help?"

" No, but you can help if you want." She said.

Kurogane went and grabbed a towel from the oven's handle and dried and put away the dishes. He still felt tired, but not as bad as yesterday. He felt bad that he, the one that stopped Neil, the one that saved his best friend, passed out in the bathroom. He gave a long yawn and finished up the rest of the dishes, as Calleigh already left the room to go tidy up the other places.

He was thinking about the other feather and what they will do when he got something thrown at him and scared him and making him drop the glass he was drying in his hand. From his ninja training, his reflexes quickly grabbed the mop beside him and pointed it at the man that threw an orange at him. He saw Fay standing there, and for once there was no smile, not anger, no fright, no anything. Kurogane could not tell what he was thinking.

" Hi, Uh… why did you do that?" Kurogane asked seeing Fay in the room, he dropped the mop on the ground.

Fay kept that stare at him, expressionless.

" Why do you look at me like that?"

Fay kept it up.

" What the hell! What are you trying to pull?"

Fay moved a bit closer.

Kurogane backed up till he could no more. His hands on the wall feeling it as if there was a secret door right there.

" Mage? Uh. What are you doing?"

Fay walked closer.

" Your, freaking me out."

The blonde got closer.

Kurogane found the orange that was thrown and threw it at Fay. There was a twitch in his mouth, as if he was trying not to smile.

Kurogane looked a bit frightened and scared.

" Uh, Idiot… this is not funny at all. You're really freaking me out."

Fay looked at him the same way. ' Maybe if I keep this up, he might actually say my name…' he thought to himself ' but I originally did that so he would stop doing stuff around the house and rested.'

" STOP THIS!" Kurogane yelled.
Fay took a step closer.

' I'm a ninja, why is this freaking me out?' He thought to himself.

Fay was only a few feet away.

Kurogane was getting really nervous.

" Please stop this!" Kurogane said desperately.

" WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT ME TO DO TEME?" He shouted.

Nothing worked.

Kurogane looked frightened, and overly confused how he, Fay, would frighten him.

Fay felt bad how he was getting him scared; he too was confused how it was working so well.

" Fay, you're freaking me out!
STOP THIS!"

That is when Fay fell on the ground laughing.

Kurogane looked at him, still frightened.

" What the hell?"

" I got you to say my name!!" Fay shouted excitedly.

The ninja looked bewildered. " Wh-what? YOU DID ALL THAT TO MAKE ME SAY YOUR GOD DAMN NAME! YOU MADE ME THINK YOU WERE POSSESED OR SOMETHING!" Kurogane shouted.

Fay laughed some more. Kurogane grabbed the closest thing and threw it at Fay. Fay didn't stop laughing.

The ninja growled and walked out of the room. He grabbed the vacuum to clean up the glass he broke. When he got in the room he say Fay was off the ground.

Kurogane looked at the vacuum, remembering the first time he had ever used the machine. He knew this time how to work it so it wouldn't explode on him and them having to go buy a new one because he thought it would going to eat everyone.

He turned it on and he was sucking up the broken glass when it turned off, He swore loudly and got up. He turned around to go plug the plug back in when he found Fay standing there that turned off the power.

" What are you doing?"

" nothing. You should go rest, I'll clean this up."

Kurogane looked at him with a confused face.

" No, I'm fine." He said pressing the button to clean up the mess.

" You don't have to do everything. Just go rest."

" I'm fine really." He looked Fay in the eye and saw what looked like sorrow, and pleading.

" Please just go rest."

Kurogane thought it was different for him to do something like that and got up. He rested his hands gently on his shoulders. Fay tried to keep the eye contact, but was afraid if He kept it, Kurogane would search him. He looked away.

" Look me in the eye. What is bugging you?"

Fay didn't budge.

" Please." He lifted one of his hands off his shoulder and grabbed his chin and forced him to look at him.

" What's wrong?"

" I just want you to rest."

" Why?"

" Be-because you do too much, and you over work yourself. Just take today to rest."

" Then you will over work yourself. What if I do the small jobs, and you do the bigger jobs?"

Fay looked at him.

" I have to do some work, you know Calleigh would be upset if I slacked off."

" She agreed you have done more then enough to earn yourself today off."

Kurogane growled. When he was sick, and stayed in bed, he disliked it. He didn't like staying in bed all day. He looked at him and then let go of him.

He turned the vacuum on again and sucked the last bit of glass away and turned it off. He unplugged the machine and walked over to the closet to store it away.

Fay watched him. Kurogane knew he was being watched to make sure he didn't over work himself. Kurogane walked to his bedroom, Fay stayed in the kitchen to finish off the last two dishes that needed to be dried, when he heard the front door open and closed. He walked to the door and say Kurogane's shoes were not there. He sighed and just let him go, thinking he was just gong for a walk, when he walked back to the kitchen did he realized what he was doing.

He ran to the back door and walked out.

" KURO-WANWAN!" Fay shouted, seeing him chop some wood for a fire that night.

Kurogane looked up and rolled his eyes.

He kept on chopping. Fay tried his best to look angry but was distracted by Kurogane's arms.

" You can stop staring at me. It is rude you know." Kurogane said when he noticed this.

Fay looked down trying to hide his blush. He walked back to the house trying to avoid it.

Kurogane was glad he was gone so he could finish off the wood.

A few more wood he chopped and he brought them inside, that was when Fay was at the door right away.

" You tricked Me."

" So?"

" You got to finish your work!"

" So?"

Fay couldn't speak. His mouth was open, but words never came out.

" Can I go put these away now?" He said throwing his shoes off and pushing pass Fay.

Fay followed him.

" What are you doing?" He growled, forgetting how much Fay actually annoyed him.

" Nooothing!" He said like a little kid up to something.

" What are you doing?"

" I told you, nothing!" He said rocking back and forth on the ball of his feet.

The ninja threw the wood in the wood stock beside the fireplace and got up. He rolled his eyes and went to the kitchen to make himself something to drink.

" I made you something." Fay called, following him in the kitchen.

" What?" He asked curiously.

" You got to close your eyes."

Kurogane was a bit afraid what he was about to do. He closed his eyes. And waited for the horror.

" Now open your mouth."

" What! No I know you just made me-" He was cut off and opened his eyes to see a cookie sticking out of his mouth. He spat it out.

" You know I hate sweets!"

Fay pretended to pout.

" But I made these special for you!"

" AND I HATE SWEETS!"

Fay turned around and had fake crocodile tears running down his face.

Kurogane knew they were fake tears. He just turned around and headed out to the living room.

Fay heard the kitchen door slam shut and Fay knew that the ninja left. He turned back around.

Kurogane was now sitting in his favorite chair and closed his eyes.

" KURO-WANWAN DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ME!" Fay shouted in his ear. The raven man jumped.

" WHAT THE HELL MAGE!" He shouted. Mokona strolled in to see Kurogane standing up trying not to hit Fay that was now on the floor laughing.

" What is Kuro-woof doing to poor Fay?" He asked, standing on the coffee table.

Kurogane growled at him.

" He is being his usual idiot self, and thinks he is being funny." He said shortly.

Mokona watched, jumped down and went to Fay, that was now slowly getting up from his laughing fit.

" Are you alright Fay?" Mokona asked.

" I'm fine Mokona."

Now Calleigh came in the room.

" Jason went home, Syaoran and Sakura went out to get the few things Fay couldn't bring home. Should we start on a late lunch or an early dinner?" She asked them.

Kurogane was hungry since he hadn't eaten all day.

" Doesn't matter as long as I have something to eat." He said, grabbing his now growling stomach. He didn't realized how hungry he really was until then.

Sakura came rushing through the door, out of breath with Syaoran right behind her.

" What's wrong?" Kurogane asked, worried that Neil was after them.

The two started to laugh.

" What's so funny?"

" We were just having a race Kurogane." Syaoran said trying to catch his breath.

Mokona jumped to the window and looked outside.

" Mekko"

" You sense the feather?" asked Syaoran.

Mokona nodded.

"Where?"

Mokona jumped on Syaoran's shoulder," It's walking away, hurry." Syaoran and Kurogane raced to the door.

" Kurogane, you're over working yourself again!" Fay complained.

" What ever mage." He said putting shoes on and ran out the door with Syaoran and Mokona.

" It went down this street."

They followed his instructions.

Then went down a few more streets. When they came up to a dark ally.

" It went down here." He said pointing down.

They slowly made their way down the ally, hoping it was someone else, and not Neil. They didn't bring their swords, so they had no weapon.

They saw a small outline of someone, and a feather.
It was still bright out, but the ally way was too dark to see everything.

The little person then darted towards them, with no weapons, they decided without even saying it, they would just defend themselves and try to snatch the feather from who ever it is.

They went to their stance, ready for an attack when they saw a fist coming at them.